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Horizontal Interaction on Local Councils' Expenditures. Evidence from Italy

SANTOLINI, RAFFAELLA; ERMINI, Barbara - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2007

This paper seeks for public spending interdependence among jurisdictions within some Italian local councils. We find significant positive interaction among spending of neighboring local councils both at the level of total expenditure and also for different subcategories. However, this result...

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An Empitical Analysis of Political and Informative Trends on Municipalities of an Italian Region.

SANTOLINI, RAFFAELLA - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2007

The aim of this paper is to conduct an empirical investigation regarding the presence of political and informative trends in tax setting of local governments as an alternative theoretical explanation to the tax mimick-ing. Both phenomena have been tested on municipalities' cross-sectional data...

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Why Should Regional Agricultural Productivity Growth Converge? Evidence from Italian Regions

Esposti, Roberto - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2008

those factors that favour or hinder regional agricultural TFP growth convergence. Among them, idiosyncratic, R … decomposition ultimately allows attributing observed productivity performance to convergence and divergence forces. Appropriate …

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Structural Convergence of Macroeconomic Time Series: Evidence for Inflation Rates in EU Countries

Zazzaro, Alberto; SARNO, Emma - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2003

In this paper we introduce a new concept of structural convergence and propose an index of dissimilarity among time … series as a measure of global convergence of macroeconomic phenomena. The index is built up from the autoregressive distance … convergence of several time series by using the information on the mutual convergence of single pairs. In this paper, we apply the …

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The Determinants of Economic Development Insitution or Geography ?

PRESBITERO, Andrea - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2004

This work investigates the roots of economic development. The debate about the predominance of institutions over geography has not yet reached a firm conclusion: this analysis wants to highlight the main difficulties that one should address in order to find which are the real determinants of...

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On the Decline of Agriculture. Evidence from Italian Regions in the Post-WWII Period

Esposti, Roberto - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2007

This article investigates the long-run decline of the agricultural sector during economic development and its contribution to this process. A two-sector model is proposed where the share of agriculture, relative prices and capital accumulation are simultaneously determined within the economy....

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The Debt-Growth Nexus: a Dynamic Panel Data Estimation

PRESBITERO, Andrea - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2005

This paper investigates the relationship between external debt and economic growth in poor countries. The adverse effects of external debt on economic performance are due to the crowding out of public investment and to the disincentive effects, because of debt overhang and uncertainty....

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Sector Potentiality and Sources of Growth. An Analysis of Structural Changes in Italy in the Nineties

BONFIGLIO, Andrea - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2005

The objective of this article is to analyse structural changes which occurred in Italy in the period 1992-2000. The analysis is carried out within the I-O framework by the use of multipliers, I-O elasticities, structural decomposition and causative approaches. These tools are used to assess over...

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Spatial Structure and Productivity in Italian NUTS-3 Regions

Veneri, Paolo; Burgalassi, David - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2011

This work is an investigation of how spatial structure affects labour productivity in Italian provinces. The analysis draws on agglomeration theories, and analyzes whether agglomeration benefits are dependent on the way activities are spatially organized within regions. Urban spatial structures...

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Industrial Districts and the City: Relationships in the Knowledge Age. Evidence from the Italian Case

Compagnucci, Fabiano; Cusinato, Augusto - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2011

The spatial implications of fordist and district-based patterns of development have had a profound effect on the debate about the role of the city. While the city is reputed to be the crucial provider of fixed social capital within the fordist model, its role seems more nuanced, if not...

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